Wes Anderson’s cinematographer describes shooting nine iconic Wes Anderson-y scenes. Some interesting nuggets: He says Disney executives wanted to cut the establishing montage from Rushmore. Wes Anderson arranged all the hair on the sink in Richie’s suicide attempt scene in The Royal Tenenbaums. They filmed in different aspect ratios to set the era in The Grand Budapest Hotel. [Vulture]

JUICY: in a teaser for a Vanity Fair piece framed as a Battle of the Museums (MoMA and the Met), Glenn Lowry’s rumored to be heading to Sotheby’s from MoMA. MoMA denies rumors saying he just signed a new contract. The rest is filled with words like “blood” and “money”, and a weirdly-hyped section about MoMA’s decision whether to open its garden to the public after the next renovation. ? The piece hits stands January 13th. [Vanity Fair]

Reactive cartoons poured forth on social media yesterday in response to the shooting of colleagues from Charlie Hebdo. Intentions may have been good, but it’s a little disturbing that the Internet only ever always speeds up after a tragedy. Charlie Hebdo routinely caricatured religious figureheads like the prophet Muhammed; based on previous attacks, the press assumes that these prompted the murders. [Mashable]

Christian Viveros-Faune on Tania Bruguera’s “Tatlin’s Whisper” for artnet News. Bruguera was arrested in Cuba last Tuesday in an attempt to restage the performance first launched in 2009 for the Havana biennial in which she offered people one minute free of censorship and a loud speaker. She was subsequently released and rearrested twice and is now in custody. [Artnet News]

Christian Viveros-Faune on Sarah Thornton’s 33 Artists in 3 Acts. The book gets a thumbs down for being too nice to its subjects. That’s disappointing. 7 Days in the Art World was pretty great relative to what’s being described here. We’ll be reading the book ourselves and report back. [The Village Voice]

Does cynicism forego people’s ability to understand Thomas Hirschhorn’s housing project monuments/philosophically oriented community centers? A Blade of Grass has sourced a series of responses to our Gramsci Monument follow-up piece last year, including commentary from Anna Dezeuze, art historian and author of a book on Hirschhorn’s work; Rocio Aranda-Alvarado, curator at El Museo del Barrio; and Lex Brown, who taught and worked at the monument. Thrilled to have this conversation continued. [A Blade of Grass]

In case you missed it, bloggers have been jumping on Russell Crowe after he advised female actors over 40 to seek age-appropriate roles in order to find more work. That’s assuming that lots of those roles exist, but the desire for them is not totally ageist. Meryl Streep agrees. [Vanity Fair]

We’re back! It’s been a while since we’ve given you a “We Went To,” but here we are to tell you about the best and worst of what’s on view on the Upper East Side. One fact became clear on this trip: John Baldessari has made a career out of oxymorons.

So, with that Prada commercial it looks like nothing’s changed about the world since the 1960s. The art world, according to William Powhida, does change. In a recent lecture (with notes published online) Powhida compares our lives in the art world to being a MOCA microcosm: we’re beholden to moneyed backers, not like we like it, and “[h]ow well these policies work is entirely dependent on how you think the world is doing, and not just our society”. He also has some good things to say about the gallery model and dealers who, while putting on the guise of success, often aren’t, and only keep going out of “a condition of need (or likely desperation).” MOCA only looks like it’s floundering because we have some insight into what’s happening on the board; we’d probably think the same if we knew what was up inside Chelsea’s backrooms. [@Powhida, Twitter]

Update: George Lucas, we reported in early April, wanted to open up a museum. Now he’s submitted a proposal to city officials to make it happen. From the proposal, we know the museum’s name (Lucas Cultural Arts Museum), and it’s devoted to all the “storytelling” arts (comics, illustration, and animation). If you have any questions, feel free to email the museum’s sole contact: museum@skywalkerranch.com. [The Drawn Blog]

Ew. State Senator Malcolm A. Smith, a Democrat, and City Councilman Daniel J. Halloran III, a Republican, were arrested early Tuesday on charges of trying to fix this year’s mayoral race in New York City. [NYTimes]

Mary Louise Schumacher complains that the Tow Center report on journalism marginalizes culture coverage, and deeming it unimportant relative to “true stories that can change society”. The study itself is very strange, describing itself as part survey, part manifesto. I’m not sure it’s the best starting point for a conversation about arts journalism in mainstream publications. [JS Online]

Brooklyn artist KAWS’ “COMPANION (PASSING THROUGH),” his anime-style cartoon character crying, which has been touring over the past few years from Hong Kong to various US cities, will stop next at Philly’s 30th Street Station. [Hypebeast]

Ho.lee.mo.lee. The Telegraph lists not one, but ten, luxury hotels that have artist residency programs. [Telegraph] No surprise, they tend to favor fashion illustration. [Vogue/Telegraph]